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Paul Pearson (Illinois)
Paul Pearson ran for election to the Chicago City Council to represent Ward 4 in Illinois. He was disqualified from the general election scheduled on February 28, 2023.
Pearson completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2023
See also: City elections in Chicago, Illinois (2023)
General runoff election
General runoff election for Chicago City Council Ward 4
Lamont Robinson Jr. defeated Prentice Butler in the general runoff election for Chicago City Council Ward 4 on April 4, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Lamont Robinson Jr. (Nonpartisan) | 66.3 | 8,861 |
 | Prentice Butler (Nonpartisan) | 33.7 | 4,499 | |
| Total votes: 13,360 | |||
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General election
General election for Chicago City Council Ward 4
The following candidates ran in the general election for Chicago City Council Ward 4 on February 28, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Lamont Robinson Jr. (Nonpartisan) | 46.3 | 5,789 |
| ✔ | | Prentice Butler (Nonpartisan) | 15.2 | 1,906 |
 | Ebony Lucas (Nonpartisan) | 14.4 | 1,802 | |
| Matthew Humphries (Nonpartisan) | 9.4 | 1,175 | ||
| Tracey Y. Bey (Nonpartisan) | 9.2 | 1,145 | ||
 | Helen West (Nonpartisan) | 5.5 | 692 | |
| Total votes: 12,509 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Paul Pearson (Nonpartisan)
Campaign themes
2023
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Paul Pearson completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Pearson's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Thereafter Paul Pearson entered the DePaul College of Law where completed a Master of Jurisprudence focused on Public Interest Law and is currently 4 courses away from completing a Doctorate in Education focused on Higher Education Leadership from the DePaul University College of Education.
As has been demonstrated Paul Pearson has aligned his service with his profession life serving as adjunct faculty at DePaul University, Harold Washington College, Olive Harvey College, Wilbur Wright College and served briefly as the Executive Director of the Workforce Equity Initiative also at Wilbur Wright College.
- Paul Pearson is engaged with the 4th Ward and will become, upon election, the first person in the history of the 4th Ward to have been born and raised in the 4th Ward. Because of his strong ties to all of the 4th Ward community Paul Pearson will conjoin his live experience and practical knowledge of the 4th Ward with his servant leadership values, principals rooted in his legal education and voice of advocacy for those who are all too often are under-educated, under-resourced, and under-privileged. As Alderperson of the 4th Ward Paul Pearson will listen to engaged community members demands for equity in the City of Chicago for economic inclusion.
- Paul Pearson is an EDUCATOR by profession and will utilize a culturally competent lens towards ensuring that our most neglected student populations, their parents, and our entire community invest in education models that speak directly to those who have had a legacy of over representation in suspensions, expulsions, and drop-outs. This with the understand that our system is not broken and is, in fact, working as it has been designed. Thereby the disparate impact of the so-called achievement-gaps must be addressed by ensuring that all schools in the 4th Ward receive the proper funding as well as culturally competent pedagogy.
- Paul Pearson is a servant leader who has one desire; to EMPOWER our community 4th Ward in the City of Chicago. Paul’s philosophy is simple, when you empower the community, you serve everyone in the community wins. As the next Alderperson of the 4th Ward will use his role to listen to the 4th Wards needs and see this from a bottom’s up lens
Public Safety in the form of restorative practice
Equitable Education for all schools in the 4th Ward
Community Based Entrepreneurship
Affordable Housing
Cultural Competence:
Transparency
Agility .
Vision
Critical Thinker
Inspirational
Interpersonal Communication
Authenticity
Self-Awareness
On February 22, 1983 a 12 year old Paul Pearson watched as his beloved my grandmother began running through our 4 bedroom Washington Park Homes apartment shouting "Thank you Jesus" all throughout the night. Harold Washington had become the first Black Mayor of the City of Chicago. Before she put me to bed she said, "your middle name is Harold, so you are going to serve like Harold one day ok". I simply replied without knowing at all what she was telling me "ok grandma". Today I stand to become the first person in the history of the 4th Ward to have been born in the 4th Ward (Mercy Hospital) to become Alderperson.
This may be because, in part at least, that the novel is still to this very day regarded as one of the greatest literary works of all time, and many of us can see why.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn2aEXiisGc
• Agile Supervision
• Board Development
• Branding/Marketing
• Budget Management
• Budget Planning
• Community Advocacy
• Conflict Resolution
• Counseling
• Customer Service
• Data Base Design
• Development/Program Creation
• Donor Cultivation
• Information Systems Design
• Legal Research
• Legal Writing
• Major Fundraising
• Master Networker
• Meditations
• Negotiations
• Operations Management
• Philanthropic
• Project Management
• Public Policy
• Public Relations
• Public Speaking
• Restorative Justice Practices
• Team-Building
• Technology Oversight
• Training/Teaching
• Values Centered Leadership
• Youth Mentoring
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See also
2023 Elections
External links
Footnotes
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